Paul...the Preps song spent 3 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, peaking at #85. It also spent 3 weeks on the Cashbox Top 100 chart, reaching #88. One of the other things the Preps moved on to was the single release The Girl Without A Top, viz. the top part of her bathing suit. Don't know if Brian Epstein found it funny or not but it did not chart.

--Previous Message-- : Larry, this is the real story on that Four Preps recording. The Preps had done parody : recordings of popular hits before with some success (More Money for you and Me, The : Big Draft) So they hadn't had a hit in awhile and decided to do this recording and : it was thoroughly checked out as far as publishing rights etc. It was released and : at least where I was it was in the top 100 the first week, the second week I think : it was #40 or so, boy it was hot, I had gotten my copy, the third week it : disappeared, I couldn't believe it, the fourth week I looked , no wheres to be : found. Never could figure this out. A couple of years ago I asked Bruce Belland, : what happened? Apparantly Brian Epstein did not find the record funny, the Preps : and the Beatles where both on Capitol Records in the U.S. Epstein called the head : of Capitol Records and demanded it be recalled. All the remaining copies where : smashed and discarded before shipping. According to Bruce Belland this went a long : way to the members of the Preps deciding to move on to other things and dissolve the : group. : : --Previous Message-- : Based on my posting of the Four Preps song below and this one, looks like Capitol : Records was pumping The Beatles well for all it was worth. The Kingston Trio - who? : : https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ln7JD0RbTno?rel=0&ecver=0: : --Previous Message-- : Poor Alan Sherman. He had a great oversell of his first two records, challenging : teens and parents, and weight loss, and the Kennedys, astronauts, and folk singing. : He got to love the sound of his own voice too much. His family left him, he strove : to stay topical as a night club act, then sputtered out and died - actually died. : : I think Sherman became too critical of the world evolving around his comfort zone, : especially the music that was knocking everything "comfortable" off the : air. : : The morning after the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan, a neighbor kid of ours combed : his hair onto his forehead and took the bus to school, only to be threatened with : suspension for violating the dress code. I was still getting a flat-top! How many of : us remember similar cases of boys being persecuted for long hair? Reviewing those : films of the Beatles and their outrageous haircuts, I can only laugh at the mores of : the time. Long hair = Communism! : : How little we knew! How little we suspected over the horizon. : : : : :